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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Dodge City, KS

October 8, 2011Scott County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 8, 2011, 12:12 AM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2011, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2011, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Scott County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

029 
WFUS53 KDDC 080512
TORDDC
KSC171-080530-
/O.NEW.KDDC.TO.W.0029.111008T0512Z-111008T0530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1212 AM CDT SAT OCT 8 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1209 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF RAIN-WRAPPED        
  TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. THIS DANGEROUS 
  STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF MODOC...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
  45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SCOTT STATE LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10075 3849 10102 3854 10114 3865 10114
      3870 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0510Z 210DEG 37KT 3855 10106
HAIL <.50IN

$$

RUSSELL

2 follow-up statements

512 
WWUS53 KDDC 080523
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1223 AM CDT SAT OCT 8 2011

KSC171-080530-
/O.CON.KDDC.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-111008T0530Z/
SCOTT KS-
1223 AM CDT SAT OCT 8 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY
UNTIL 1230 AM CDT...

AT 1218 AM CDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS OBSERVED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH 
OF MODOC. 
 
ADDITIONALLY...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT STATE 
LAKE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SCOTT STATE LAKE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS CONFIRMED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW.
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO
THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10075 3849 10102 3854 10114 3865 10114
      3870 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 211DEG 31KT 3863 10099
HAIL <.50IN

$$

RUSSELL

826 
WWUS53 KDDC 080530
SVSDDC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1230 AM CDT SAT OCT 8 2011

KSC171-080541-
/O.EXP.KDDC.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-111008T0530Z/
SCOTT KS-
1230 AM CDT SAT OCT 8 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN SCOTT COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3869 10075 3849 10102 3854 10114 3865 10114
      3870 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0523Z 211DEG 31KT 3865 10098

$$

RUSSELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	43 min
Oct 7, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny	45 min
Oct 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton	45 min
Oct 7, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Scott	47 min
Oct 7, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	43 min
Oct 7, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	48 min
Oct 7, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Kearny, Lane, Scott	46 min
Oct 7, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	53 min
Oct 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Lane, Scott	36 min
Oct 7, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	15 min
Oct 7, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Stanton	39 min
Oct 7, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	32 min
Oct 7, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kearny, Scott	37 min
Oct 7, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Morton, Stanton	55 min
Oct 8, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	45 min
Oct 8, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Haskell, Meade	48 min
Oct 8, 5:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	48 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.